Australian timezone oddity between two similarly configured FC4 boxes

[Yuandan Zhang]

it may have something to do with the Melbourne Commonworth Games. The
daylight time should end last Saturday, but delayed to this Saturday, due to
MCG.


On 3/27/06, Ali Helmy <alihelmy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I just noted this
> around a few days ago:
>
> http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/AusTimeZone/
>
> Maybe some of the things working on ur pc have Java in them somehow... but
> then again, im only shooting in the dark...
>
>
> On 26/03/06, Tim < ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got two FC4 boxes, both have the hardware clock set to UTC (to run
> > on UTC time, and they're both showing the same time), both are
> > configured for the correct Australia/Adelaide timezone, both use NTP to
> > keep synced to real time, both have the same tzdata rpm file installed,
> > yet one box is proclaiming it's 2:32am and the other is proclaiming it's
> > 3:32am.  No amount of fiddling (without manually setting time, which
> > would put the hardware clock out of kilter) is fixing this, can anyone
> > offer me some clues?
> >
> > $ cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
> > ZONE="Australia/Adelaide"
> > UTC=true
> > ARC=false
> >
> > $ rpm -q tzdata
> > tzdata-2005r-3.fc4
> >
> > Things are being made a bit more awkward, this year, as the summertime
> > changeover has been postponed from the usual time.  So some unmodifiable
> > gadgets will get this wrong.
> >
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